2 results for month: 07/2016

The social science genetics consortium has been working to uncover the genes associated with educational attainment. First, in 2013, with 127,000 subjects, they were able to produce a polygenic risk score (PRS) explaining 2% variance in total years of education.
This doubled to 4% once they had convinced collaborators to contribute data from 329,000 subjects in a great paper by Okbay et al. reported on by The Atlantic as well as in Nature :-).
Comfortingly, this PRS replicated in the open UKBiobank sample of 100,000 adults.
Now grad-student Saskia Selzam working in the TEDS group reports in Molecular Psychiatry (along talks at BGA and our own ISIR ...